‘Fundamental change is afoot in European defence’: Political theorist Luuk van Middelaar

Our guest is someone who spends a lot of time thinking about Europe’s place in the world, and how it should adapt to the new global order of Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping. We speak to Dutch political theorist and historian Luuk van Middelaar, who heads the Brussels Institute for Geopolitics, about European defence, its strategic autonomy, artificial intelligence policy and of course the frayed relationship with Donald Trump in the light of the US president’s trade war.